Banff International String Quartet Competition
Created in 1983 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of The Banff Centre, the Banff International String Quartet Competition (BISQC) is widely recognised among the world’s leading international music competitions. First-place winners in the Competition’s history include the Colorado Quartet (1983), the Franciscan Quartet (1986), the Manfred Quartet (1989), the St Lawrence String Quartet (1992), the Amernet Quartet (1995), the Miró Quartet (1998), the Daedalus Quartet (2001), the Jupiter String Quartet (2004), and the Tinalley Quartet (2007).
As part of the Winner’s Concert Tour, the 2010 winners The Cecilia String Quartet, made their Wigmore Hall debut on Sunday 19 February this is following appearances at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Kleine Zaal, Berlin’s Konzerthaus, the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn and the Montreal Chamber Music Festival.